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The Culture of the Quake

The Great Kanto Earthquake and Taisho Japan

By Alex Bates

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Publish Date

Dec 04, 2015

Publisher

U of M Center For Japanese Studies

Language

eng

Pages

232

Description:

"The Culture of the Quake is first and foremost an exploration of Taishō-era narrative fiction. Every major film studio produced earthquake films, and authors from I-novelists to modernists, proletarian writers to popular fiction writers wrote something o the earthquake. In every case pre-existing attitudes toward their work shaped the way these people represented the earthquake, and yet the overwhelming destruction and mass suffering also posed particular challenges in representation."